boast

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
2. isim Something that one brags about.

   “It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.”

3. isim A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
4. fiil To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

   “On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.”

5. fiil (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

   “Lest bad men should boast / Their specious deeds.”

6. fiil To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

   “In God we boast all the day long.”

7. fiil To play a boast shot.
8. fiil To possess (a special and desirable quality).

   “The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.”

9. fiil To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
10. fiil To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.